Panagiotis Nikitopoulos
Senior Software Developer at Hootsuite
Luxembourg
Summary
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Top SchoolPanagiotis Nikitopoulos is a Senior Software Developer and data engineer with a decade of experience building large-scale data processing and analytics systems across research and industry. He has blended academic rigor—pursuing a PhD in Big Data Processing and Analytics—with hands-on engineering roles on multiple H2020 research projects and commercial platforms. Based in Luxembourg, he recently joined Hootsuite after four years as a senior engineer at Talkwalker, bringing deep expertise in big data pipelines, research-driven solutions, and production-quality software. His background spans end-to-end systems from university research prototypes to enterprise deployment, reflecting a knack for turning complex data science ideas into robust, scalable services. Colleagues know him for bridging research and product needs and for consistently delivering practical solutions informed by a strong theoretical foundation.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Big Data Processing and Analytics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Big Data Processing and Analytics at University of PiraeusBachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Technological Educational Institute of Athens
English, Greek
Github Skills (34)
kubernetes9
java9
python9
elasticsearch8
r-tree8
search-engine8
restful7
weather-data6
api6
in-memory5
opensearch5
reactive4
mmap4
1c4
filter3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
nikpanos/DRDF_Query
Jan 2017 - Mar 2019
Contributions:2 PRs, 129 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 1 month
nikpanos/SparkSql-Intro
May 2019 - May 2019
Contributions:12 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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